We drank quite a bit and with slow soft music the moment was heating up..Alcohol played its part..Slowly the distance between us was reduced.We were l...oking into each other’s eyes.I placed my first move and gradually gave a small peg on her lips.The moment was frozen.We both could sense our heart thundering.And soon a small peg of the kiss was turned into a good long smooch.We were busy exploring one another..I placed my hands over her waist..Damn..It was just so perfect..There was no room for. She could empathise with that, she and her parents might as well be on different planets for all the interaction they had as a family. A glass of wine later had them semi-naked, lying on his queen sized bed. He was dressed only in boxer shorts; she was wearing one of his tee shirts and a smile. Although inexperienced as they were, mutually, they had decided to move along slowly; spending time touching each other, exploring with fingertips and lips. The choice of tempo had been hers, it. Erica first went over to Mike and Steve and thanked them for protecting her from the gang and saving her. As she was thanking them Alan noticed something, both Mike and Steve, but especially Mike looked at Erica with a soft loving but passionate look and she was very demure around them and couldn’t look him in the eye. Something had happened between Erica and Mike that night and he thought he might know what. Erica went through her story top to bottom, twice and Capt. Green asks several. Humanity surged and leapt to other planets, and then the stars. Then, another image appeared, and the world was a cold, lifeless husk."Those are the choices," said a voice, or a combination of voices that had had characteristics of all his family and friends."You forgot one possibility," Sean said coldly, before doing something he had never done before. He sent an image back to the Dream.The earth was a blue-green orb, turning in the darkness of space. The boundaries between oceans and land.